With the laminations on one beam mount ready, I can move on fitting the cockpit panels. Something I've been looking forward to do for a long time.
I used a router to cut out the hatches in the cockpit seat fronts.
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It worked well, it's a neater job than working with the jigsaw. A bit work to make the mold, but after that it's easy and fast to route out the four identical hatches.
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Trial fit of the panels. After only a little bit of trimming all panels fit well.
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A bit of trimming and removing of excess glassfiber makes the beam mount look a lot better. It's a shame I didn't remove the hygrometer (black thing) when taking the picture. It's blocking the view on my, ahem, excellent glassing job.
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Filling the gap between the hull and the molds from the outside before removing the molds paid of: a nice straight edge to work on in the future.
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Thursday I will take a day of and my brother will come and help me, so I hope to make good progress that day. Till then no time for building.
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